Browsing 6.1 Documentos de trabajo en investigación socioeconómica by Title
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People or places: the causes of spatial income differences in Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)This paper explores testable implications of a simple model of spatial heterogeneity in earnings, a model in which this spatial heterogeneity arises both from differences in the places that people work and differences among ... -
Perceptions of Police Corruption in Medellín
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-11-06)Conventional wisdom holds that police corruption is a scourge across Latin America, undermining citizens’ trust in and collaboration with police officers. We find that this does not describe police-community relations in ... -
Police reform, training and crime: experimental evidence from colombia's plan cuadrantes
(CAF; Caracas, 2013)The Plan Nacional de Vigilancia Comunitaria por Cuadrantes (PNVCC) is a new police patrolling program introduced in the eight major cities of Colombia in 2010 by the National Police. The strategy divides the largest cities ... -
Political connections and misallocation of procurement contracts: evidence from Ecuador
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-12-2)This paper uses detailed ownership information of private firms in Ecuador and the identity of bureaucrats to document the effects of political connections on firm size and the allocation of government contracts. Reduced-form ... -
Political constraints and state capacity: Evidence from a land allocation program in Mexico
(CAF, 2015-07-20)In this paper we contribute to the understanding of the politics of state building. We emphasize that incumbent clientelistic parties might have incentives to sustain state fragility when politically challenged. We develop ... -
Políticas de fomento al emprendimiento dinámico en América Latina: tendencias y desafíos
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)Este trabajo se focaliza en las políticas de fomento al emprendimiento dinámico, es decir de las nuevas empresas que, además de sobrevivir, logran crecer de manera significativa. Este trabajo describe y analiza aquellas ... -
Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-08)In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning disadvantage. Specifically, we first document that, in line with findings in other countries, younger children ... -
Prácticas laborales como mecanismo para mejorar la empleabilidad de los jóvenes: Lecciones para el caso argentino
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-12-14)El desempleo y la informalidad son más altos para los jóvenes que para los adultos. Las causas detrás de este problema se relacionan con las barreras al primer acceso al mercado del trabajo y pueden clasificarse en dos ... -
Predicting Individual Wellbeing Through Test Scores: Evidence from a National Assessment in Mexico
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-05)We construct two longitudinal datasets that record students’ test scores in a national standardized exam in Mexico and track students from the end of primary (Grade 6) to the end of lower (Grade 9) and upper (Grade 12) ... -
Programas de Financiamiento Productivo a pymes, acceso al crédito y desempeño de las firmas: Evidencia de Argentina
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-30)En Argentina se han implementado, en los últimos años, un importante abanico de políticas de financiamiento público hacia las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas. Sin embargo, hasta el momento, no se han realizado trabajos ... -
Public expenditures and debt at the subnational level: Evidence of fiscal smoothing from Argentina
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-01-30)This paper uses the particular features of the tax-sharing regime Coparticipación Federal de Impuestos and the fact that some provinces earn hydrocarbon royalties to investigate public expenditures and debt at the subnational ... -
Public financial support and innovation in Colombian manufacturing firms
(CAF; Caracas, 2017-05-30)We evaluate the impact of public financial support, both subsidies and credit, on different types of innovation in Colombian industry. We compare it with the effects of financing innovation with own resources and with ... -
Public-infraestructure and energy-subsidy policies, energy access by the poor and long-term macroeconomic performance
(CAF; Bogotá, 2017-04-24)This paper presents the main set-up and long-run results from a simple deterministic version of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of a small open economy in Kawamura (2017). The model assumes two types of ... -
Quality Regulation and Competition: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-06)We study the equilibrium effects of quality regulation on market outcomes by exploiting the staggered phase-in of bioequivalence requirements for generic drugs in Chile. While the objective of the regulation was to increase ... -
Reciprocity and willingness to pay taxes: evidence from a survey experiment in Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)We provide the first experimental attempt at measuring reciprocity in tax collection in developing countries, where enforcement institutions are weak, and where tax rates and in general tax observance is lower. In a household ... -
Rules vs. Discretion in Public Service: Teacher Hiring in Mexico
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-08-18)In this paper, I use a unique empirical setting that allows me to compare the performance of teachers hired in a discretionary process led by the teachers’ union in Mexico with the performance of those hired on the basis ... -
Rural Property Tax Revenue in the Face of Economic Concentration and Political Competition: Evidence from Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2016-09-21)We study the relationship between two sources of political power and property tax revenues in contemporary rural Colombia. First, de jure political power is the extent to which local political elites can capture the public ... -
Self-Selection into Corruption: Evidence from the Lab
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-04-22)We study whether the existence of opportunities to extract rents in a job affects the type of individuals who are attracted to it. We design a laboratory experiment in which individuals choose between two contracts, each ... -
Servicios locales, infraestructura y transporte: dimensión, escala, redes e instituciones de gobernanza
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)Este trabajo pretende contribuir a la comprensión de las pautas de producción y de gobernanza de los servicios públicos locales. La cuestión central es que algunos de estos servicios están caracterizados por economías de ... -
Skills and selection into teaching: Evidence from Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-08-12)This paper documents a novel stylized fact: many teachers in Latin America have very low levels of cognitive skills. This skills deficit is the result of both low levels of competencies among the population and a gap between ...
